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A SHIP
REMEMBERS |
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Ship
Remembers is an attempt at staged "reminiscences", a poetic reconstruction
of the sailors' personal "memory images". It is set in 1944 in the
lull before a major battle and the battle's aftermath. Outwardly the play is
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about the men on board --- ordinary men caught up in the world's history. As
a tribute to the "invisible histories" of their inner lives, the
play mines fantasies, fears and dreams, and delicately explores the conspicuous
absence of the feminine in the all- male society of ships in the 1940s. |
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Artship, formerly the passenger cargo ship Del Orleans, was renamed USS Crescent City and served as a Troop Transport/Combat Vessel in WWII. It carried on average 1,300 men on board every day throughout the war. That is roughly 1, 898,000 men. |
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The
performance is staged in close collaboration with the cast. Co- written (and
wrought) with Jakob Bokulich. Conceived, directed / choreographed: Slobodan Dan Paich.
Evolved at "Total Theater - Open Rehearsals" of Artship Dance/Theater
throughout 2001, 02, 03. Musical director and Cello accompaniment Suellen Primost |
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